These past several weeks of readings have been highly
enjoyable for me. Since I am in my final
semester of my International Relations, three of my five classes are in my
major and a lot of my other readings can be somewhat repetitive and
occasionally uninteresting. It has been
so much fun to be able to read something non-academic, with creativity and
occasionally humor. I love reading, but
sometimes hour after hour of political theory can really start to wear on
you. This class and the readings here
are something that I look forward to doing because it is such a nice,
refreshing break.
My favorite unit so far has actually been last week’s unit
on Africa. I read an anthology about
Anansi, the trickster spider god, and I actually found myself laughing out loud
at some of the things that happened in the stories. Although I didn’t really know what I wanted
to do for the story post, and wasn’t 100% satisfied even when I had finished,
it is so nice to be able to have this creative expression output in an
otherwise very dry academic calendar.
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I look forward to finishing my story project as well for the
same reason. It will be interesting and
a great learning experience, but it should mostly serve as a good way for me to
express my inner creativity and grow as a writer as well.
I chose this picture of cliffs to accompany one of my stories of Persephone jumping off the cliffs into the invisible arms of Zephyr. It is such a beautiful image, and I can almost feel as if I am standing right there.
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